Summary: In a new performance, Jenkinson brings alive the faces of Mount Rushmore. Jenkinson appears in costume and character as Theodore Roosevelt and offers commentary on the faces of Mount Rushmore: Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Jenkinson, a Rhodes and Danforth scholar, is a co-founder of the modern Chautauqua movement. He has portrayed Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Oppenheimer, and other historical characters in first-person interpretations. Jenkinson is host of the weekly syndicated National Public Radio program “The Thomas Jefferson Hour.” He is director of the Dakota Institute in his home state of North Dakota, a columnist for the Bismarck Tribune and founder/chief consultant of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University.
